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• On the post: Senator Wyden Proposes Bill That Would Protect Users From Bogus Data Caps

  

  Miff ( profile ), 20 Dec, 2012 @ 08:51pm

  Google just needs to kick their fiber into high gear. Perhaps a kickstarter-style system where town residents pledge X ammount of dollars towards their city, and when they raise enough money to install a fiber system there, do so.

• On the post: TSA/Airport Security: Killing Us On Christmas

  

  Miff ( profile ), 22 Nov, 2012 @ 03:04pm

  Then again

  Isn't this exactly what the people behind 9/11 wanted?

• On the post: Blizzard Sued For Trying To Make Accounts More Secure

  

  Miff ( profile ), 13 Nov, 2012 @ 04:09am

  At least it's just a fraud lawsuit and not someone claiming to have a patent on two-factor authentication with "internet" crudely scrawled on it.

• On the post: Organizations Try To Shame People Into Voting By Revealing How Often They & Their Neighbors Voted

  

  Miff ( profile ), 07 Nov, 2012 @ 05:45am

  Re: None of the above

  At least in my jurisdiction, you can vote "none of the above" by submitting an unmarked ballot. This is for people that only care about a handful of issues and only want to vote for the ones they care for. (For example, yesterday I only voted for President, Congressman, and on a handful of state laws; I didn't vote for any local state positions.)

• On the post: When A Mouse Requires An Internet Connection, You're Doing 'Cloud' Wrong

  

  Miff ( profile ), 07 Nov, 2012 @ 05:30am

  The solution is to return the mouse/keyboard and get Logitech instead.

• On the post: Harry Fox Agency Claims Copyright Over Public Domain Work By Johann Strauss

  

  Miff ( profile ), 06 Nov, 2012 @ 11:56pm

  Like I keep saying

  I'd be okay with a "strikes" system if it also extended the metaphor to include "balls".

• On the post: Scientist Refused Permission To Call Hominids 'Hobbits', Even Though Word First Used In Print In 1895 — And Not By Tolkien

  

  Miff ( profile ), 26 Oct, 2012 @ 12:25pm

  If I recall correctly TSR went through some legal trouble in the '70s about hobbits in D&D; they ended up changing the name to halflings.

• On the post: Windows 8's Arbitrary App Certification Rules Could Block Skyrim And Other Huge Games

  

  Miff ( profile ), 19 Oct, 2012 @ 08:33pm

  Again the marketplace is not the end-all be-all for Windows 8!
  
  Go blather on about Apple actually locking out non-app-store sources in OSX, or even the mess that is trying to distribute closed-sourced software for Linux. Oh wait, Linux is beloved because it's open source and Apple is beloved because it's Apple.

• On the post: Creepy Smartphone Malware Re-creates Your Home For Stalkers

  

  Miff ( profile ), 05 Oct, 2012 @ 10:02pm

  Re: [this space intentionally left blank]

  Yeah, I was going to the comments to say just this!
  
  I'd really like software that does this, but sends the images to me instead of a third party. That'd be cool.

• On the post: X-plane Developer Sued By Patent Troll; Ponders Shuttering Business Or Defending

  

  Miff ( profile ), 28 Sep, 2012 @ 07:55pm

  I wonder if there's any money to be made in patent troll trolling: Offer to represent companies free of charge against patent trolls, hear the case in court, and convince the court to award massive fines... against the patent trolls with the money going to the defendant. Then the troll trollers take the money received as payment for the free defense.

• On the post: Can 'The Internet Vote' Be The Next Important Voting Bloc?

  

  Miff ( profile ), 27 Sep, 2012 @ 01:06am

  My senator was the one who placed that "super-secret" hold on that patent reform bill months ago. After he did that I was determined to vote him out, and I will vote against him when he's up for re-election... in four more years...
  
  Indirect democracy isn't.

• On the post: Horrifying: Surfthechannel Criminal Conviction Driven By Hollywood Money — Not The Government

  

  Miff ( profile ), 20 Aug, 2012 @ 12:23pm

  > Lee explains that this is an oddity/antiquity of UK law, in which private parties are actually allowed to bring criminal charges against other private parties, rather than (as in the US) needing the government to decide to bring charges.
  
  I actually think this is a positive. Imagine what we could do if we the people could bring perjury charges against the *IAAs for all the false DMCA takedowns they send.

• On the post: Patent Office Seeking Comments On How To Implement A 'First To File' Regime Instead Of 'First To Invent'

  

  Miff ( profile ), 01 Aug, 2012 @ 02:23pm

  Re: Re: Re:

  I know, but what I was saying is that prior art doesn't invalidate first to file patents, only first to invent.

• On the post: Patent Office Seeking Comments On How To Implement A 'First To File' Regime Instead Of 'First To Invent'

  

  Miff ( profile ), 01 Aug, 2012 @ 01:58am

  Re:

  Except there's no more prior art with first to file.

• On the post: Press Speculates Batman Shooter Must Have Played Video Games; They're Right: He Loved Guitar Hero

  

  Miff ( profile ), 26 Jul, 2012 @ 06:59pm

  As everyone should know by now

  Video games do not cause violence. Violence stems from the factor that has always been in human civilization... Rock and Roll! ( ;) )

• On the post: Musician Wonders What It Would Take To Become An Open Source Musician

  

  Miff ( profile ), 16 May, 2012 @ 06:15pm

  Re: Release Raw Material

  I say at lest for digitally-edited music, the project file from whatever DAW was used is a good choice.

• On the post: Old Habits Or New Envy? Microsoft Bans 3rd Party Browsers On Windows RT

  

  Miff ( profile ), 11 May, 2012 @ 08:03am

  > And, in the process, the company may end up setting off some antitrust alarm bells.
  
  I only hope this happens because then a "well Apple does it" response may trigger actions against Apple as well.

• On the post: Should We Outlaw Employers From Asking For Social Networking Logins?

  

  Miff ( profile ), 22 Mar, 2012 @ 08:28am

  The best argument I've seen for outlawing this is that a Facebook account often contains information that it's illegal for an employer to ask of interviewees such as age, martial status, or religion.
  
  "Oh yeah, according to your private Facebook posts about your divorce, we see you're not a 'family man' so we can't hire you."

• On the post: Yet Another Attempt To Place Warning Labels On Video Games Based On Zero Evidence

  

  Miff ( profile ), 21 Mar, 2012 @ 02:42pm

  Re: Re: Please start including party labels. (R) (D)

  What about state labels? At least that would let us know the difference between "I wish I was a constituatnt of X so I could vote against them" and "I wish X was up for re-election so I could vote against them".

• On the post: QR Codes: Ugly, Overused and Doomed

  

  Miff ( profile ), 09 Mar, 2012 @ 09:50am

  The worst part is finding QR codes in the wild that look nice but don't scan.

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